# Montana — Will execution requirements by state: witnesses, notarization, holographic and electronic wills

For Montana, witnesses required is signed by at least two individuals, each of whom signed within a reasonable time after having witnessed either the signing of the will as described in subsection (1)(b) or the testator's acknowledgment of that signature or acknowledgment of the will; holographic wills is A will that does not comply with subsection (1) is valid as a holographic will, whether or not witnessed, if the signature and material portions of the document are in the testator's handwriting; statute citation is Mont. Code Ann. § 72-2-522, recorded from its source on 2026-09-02.

- **State:** Montana
- **Witnesses required:** signed by at least two individuals, each of whom signed within a reasonable time after having witnessed either the signing of the will as described in subsection (1)(b) or the testator's acknowledgment of that signature or acknowledgment of the will. _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Holographic wills:** A will that does not comply with subsection (1) is valid as a holographic will, whether or not witnessed, if the signature and material portions of the document are in the testator's handwriting. _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Statute citation:** Mont. Code Ann. § 72-2-522 _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> (a) in writing; (b) signed by the testator or in the testator's name by some other individual in the testator's conscious presence and by the testator's direction; and (c) signed by at least two individuals, each of whom signed within a reasonable time after having witnessed either the signing of the will as described in subsection (1)(b) or the testator's acknowledgment of that signature or acknowledgment of the will.

## Where each value comes from

This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it.

### Holographic wills

> (2) A will that does not comply with subsection (1) is valid as a holographic will, whether or not witnessed, if the signature and material portions of the document are in the testator's handwriting.

## Source

- https://leg.mt.gov/bills/mca/title_0720/chapter_0020/part_0050/section_0220/0720-0020-0050-0220.html

Last verified: 2026-09-02. Review by: 2028-02-24.
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